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Hi Guys

I have been an Ableton Live user since its first Conception but always on PC's
I been through several systems and several soundcards during my the time of producing music.

I recently got an iMac because all my friends and coloberators use Logic so I saved up money and got a beefed up iMac

Current Specs: iMac i7 3.4GH Processor with 1TB HDD, 2GB Video Card and 32GB or Ram (im running Omnisphere hence the high Ram upgrade) Running OSX Lion 10.7.2

This is purly a MAC intended for my Music Production Studio Nothing else

I'm using an M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8R USB 2 Sound Interface.

Here's my issue and please excuse my ignorance but i never used an Mac before and my friends dont use Ableton

I installed Live 8.2 and upgraded to 8.2.6 when I go to my music tab I can not select the M-Audio driver it does not even show up in the option menu .. all I get is "No Audio" or "Core Audio" which i believe is the internal SoundCard Driver .

My Fast Track Ultra interface shows up in the In's and Out's Tab but its not showing up in the driver window
I still get sound through the Soundcard but the latency isnt as good as on my PC

MY Questions:
1) Why dont the M-Audio Drivers Show in the Devices Tap?? are they supposed to show ??
Other software like Propellrheads Reason 5 and Garage Band have no problems picking it up.

2) Is this normal .. should the the device show up? ..I have the latest drives from M-Audio site I believe the latest Fast Track Drivers are ver 2.1.1

3)is this an issue with Lion because its fairly new ??

4) Should I be worried?

Again sorry if any of those questions seem dumb I just didnt own a mac since the Perfoma 250 and been a PC user and still am for the last 15 years

Thanks In advance

So much for waiting 2 days to subscribe to this board ... no help at all

Mikyb676 wrote:Hi Guys

I have been an Ableton Live user since its first Conception but always on PC's
I been through several systems and several soundcards during my the time of producing music.

I recently got an iMac because all my friends and coloberators use Logic so I saved up money and got a beefed up iMac

Current Specs: iMac i7 3.4GH Processor with 1TB HDD, 2GB Video Card and 32GB or Ram (im running Omnisphere hence the high Ram upgrade) Running OSX Lion 10.7.2

This is purly a MAC intended for my Music Production Studio Nothing else

I'm using an M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8R USB 2 Sound Interface.

Here's my issue and please excuse my ignorance but i never used an Mac before and my friends dont use Ableton

I installed Live 8.2 and upgraded to 8.2.6 when I go to my music tab I can not select the M-Audio driver it does not even show up in the option menu .. all I get is "No Audio" or "Core Audio" which i believe is the internal SoundCard Driver .

My Fast Track Ultra interface shows up in the In's and Out's Tab but its not showing up in the driver window
I still get sound through the Soundcard but the latency isnt as good as on my PC

MY Questions:
1) Why dont the M-Audio Drivers Show in the Devices Tap?? are they supposed to show ??
Other software like Propellrheads Reason 5 and Garage Band have no problems picking it up.

2) Is this normal .. should the the device show up? ..I have the latest drives from M-Audio site I believe the latest Fast Track Drivers are ver 2.1.1

3)is this an issue with Lion because its fairly new ??

4) Should I be worried?

Again sorry if any of those questions seem dumb I just didnt own a mac since the Perfoma 250 and been a PC user and still am for the last 15 years

Thanks In advance

All audio drivers written for Macs are Core Audio drivers. Core Audio is the audio system of the OS. Just choose Core Audio for the driver and then choose the correct devices.

Cool
Thank you for that , like I said I'm new to Mac's and all the Ableton Tutorials and Books that I own concentrated purely on Windows Based OS.

I actually mucked around with it a bit yesterday and was getting great latency

Cheers yet again